No, I do not think (in any case) ... trust me. :mrgreen:
I have read the sentence
frater schrieb:
Freetz gets only tested on German firmwares. I'm now only sticking to 7490's and I can't upgrade any of the more rare models anymore because I can't build a properly working Freetz for those anymore.
and my response was only intended to show you, that nobody else will/would test newer versions, if no "user" of Freetz will do this test.
It's solely your own decision, if you invest the time and try to get newer Freetz images up and running on your devices ... but it's even useless to "complain" about a poor support for intl. versions and - beside my own impressions - that's the essence of "Freetz
gets only tested on German firmwares." (it's the
passive way only to determine it and the
active one would be to test it yourself).
If you think, it should also be verified thoroughly on international versions, you have to/can/should do it and file your findings in case of errors. After a possible solution/fix was provided, the cycle starts over.
I'm not a Freetz developer, but I would think, most of "FRITZ!Box modding" is done by Germans and so it's only natural, that the German version will get more attention (even from the vendor himself/herself/itself) and is better supported.
Why should a German (with a DSL connection in Germany) change his own device to the other firmware version and run tests with it? Some/most tests aren't possible at all, if the wrong technology is present (POTS vs. ISDN, ADSL vs. VDSL, Annex and so on) and it doesn't really matter, if the international version "rejects to run", if nobody uses it or is really interested to get it running. Only to state "it's malfunctioning" isn't enough involvement ... if you've filed error reports in the past, please provide a link to them.
If there's anybody interested to use the intl. version, he/she should run the needed tests and report any findings and - after a fix was provided - take the time again (and over and over again, if needed) to finish the whole problem.
If it's only "reported" and the possible solution is never checked again, next time the developer will think twice, if he/she invest time again into the next try.
As mentioned above, I'm not a Freetz developer ... but I'm not aware of open problems "freetzing" an intl. 06.30 version for a 7390. May be, I'm wrong ... but there's a ticket system to track such issues and a (more quick than thorough) search didn't find one. Can you show me some open (elder) tickets?
Some problems from the past (e.g. using a uClibc, which doesn't throw the needed exception parsing a string with scanf() and a "%m" mask, leading to watchdog initiated reboots after ctlmgr crashes) are solved since a long time (or should be solved at least) and so I cannot confirm your impression(?), that the intl. version "gets" handled poorer than the german.
If there are special problems, only the
users may reveal and report them. Most of the changes (beside the modifications of vendor's GUI) made by Freetz do not distinguish between german and intl. - if they result in different behavior, it's unexpected and should be investigated ... but it's the user's task to report such things.
Remember, it's not an offense ... may be I'm too stupid to find your reports. If they do not exist, it's not a surprise if bugs will never be "hunted".